AOL Staff's DMOZ/ODP Blog: A New Beginning for ODP Communication"One of the commitments recently made by AOL to the ODP Editing Community (along with the provision of several additional AOL staff, some hardware upgrades, and various ongoing software changes) was to provide a better way to get more information about the ODP out to the wider public. So today, the ODP Blog has gone live."

DMOZ Founder Rich Skrenta : DMOZ Probably Down for The CountDMoz Founder Rich Skrenta: "...massive AOL layoffs last week, and it's not clear if there's even any left over there who cares. Even if some form of the ODP editing system is brought back, the likelihood of continued existence within AOL seems extremely doubtful."

DMOZ: Getting More Editors"We all know that DMOZ needs more editors. At the same time, at least some are turned down because of possible conflicts of interest in their desired category. "

Mar 1, 2003

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Directory Listing Hijack Detection"With tens of thousands of links in a directory, manually re-checking each link one at a time is out of the question. The solution? Write your own custom link checker on steroids."

ODP - Can we talk?An interesting thread on the current power structure, politics, and status of the ODP.

Dec 13, 2001

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ODP Rockets Past 3 Million!The Open Directory Project rolls over a major milestone by becoming the first known directory to list 3 million pages!

Nov 19, 2001

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ODP, The Mother of All Search EnginesEvery new search engine that comes along, starts with the ODP as a seed database. Teoma, WiseNut, Google, Inktomi, Fast, Altavista, and hundreds of other se´s have used the ODP to influence or seed databases.

July 22, 2002

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Rich Skrenta DMOZ Access DowngradedThere are alot of blog entries out there on this subject: " Rich Skrenta hasn't been staff for a couple of years (2002 or so). The "root" permissions level has been updated in recent weeks to reflect the access needs and activity of various former staff members."